Monthly Archives: 1 月 2016

China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers

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Arrests Reflect Xi Jinping’s Broader Repression of Rights Activism

(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading →

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Beijing church elder formally arrested after six months in detention

Posted on 01/14/2016 by | Beijing church elder formally arrested after six months in detention已关闭评论

China Aid
By Rachel Ritchie

 (Tianjin, China—Jan. 14, 2016) China Aid learned today that authorities in China’s northern Tianjin Municipality formally arrested a Beijing church elder and democracy activist for “subversion of state power” on Jan. 8, according to an arrest notice received by the man’s family members. Continue reading →

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China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion

Posted on 01/13/2016 by | China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion已关闭评论

BEIJING | By Sui-Lee Wee

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files

Chinese authorities have formally arrested China’s most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. Continue reading →

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China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’

Posted on 01/12/2016 by | China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’已关闭评论
Zhou Shifeng

Zhou Shifeng is one of several Chinese lawyers who disappeared last year

China has formally arrested and charged at least seven human rights lawyers and associates with “subversion”, friends and relatives say. Continue reading →

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Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair

Posted on 01/11/2016 by | Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair已关闭评论
Li Heping was taken from his home in July and has not been seen since along with dozens of other attorneys amid a crackdown on dissidents
Li Heping

Li Heping, a well-known human rights lawyers, has been missing in China since 10 July 2015. ‘I never thought this country could be so corrupt,’ his wife said. Photograph: Supplied

Six months after her husband was spirited into secret detention by security forces, the wife of one of China’s top civil rights lawyers has spoken of her grief and despair. Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome

Posted on 01/10/2016 by | Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome已关闭评论
Fu Lei

Chinese intellectual Fu Lei. Image via: Wikimedia Commons.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals committed suicide in defiance of Mao Zedong’s policies, which would take the lives of millions more. Continue reading →

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China Jails Tortured Rights Lawyer For Six Months Amid Protests

Posted on 01/09/2016 by | China Jails Tortured Rights Lawyer For Six Months Amid Protests已关闭评论
support for rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin

A Chinese citizen holds a placard showing support for rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin outside the Licheng District People’s Court in Jinan, eastern China’s Shandong province, Jan. 8, 2016. Photo courtesy of a rights activist

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Friday handed a six-month jail term to detained rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin, whose lawyers say he was tortured while in custody at a police-run detention center. Continue reading →

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Anguish for families of missing China lawyers

Posted on 01/08/2016 by | Anguish for families of missing China lawyers已关闭评论
Li Wenzu

© AFP / by Tom Hancock | Li Wenzu tells her three-year old son his daddy is on a “business trip”

TIANJIN (CHINA) (AFP) -Every day Li Wenzu’s son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a “business trip”. Continue reading →

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